She feels far more comfortable in the cramped council house nearby where she grew up.
Council flat within low rise block. E. London.
My thanks to Alex Ball for writing this fascinating account of Nottingham’s impressive early council housing efforts. There is still much work to be accomplished before the complete solution …
Oli Tobin and Kira Clutton from Wrexham completely revamped the property in just seven months
Jobless Lee Miller and Natalie Cann want to swap their three-bedroom property for a five-bed home before their 10th child arrives in Bournemouth, Dorset.
Image 12 of 25 from gallery of CH2 Melbourne City Council House 2 / DesignInc. Photograph by Dianna Snape
London has its share of ex-council houses flaunting typical 1950s styles, but have you ever considered calling one of these old houses “home”?
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Victoria Swindell, 49, from Warrington, has transformed a tired-looking ex-council house into a luxurious home by sourcing budget materials to keep co...
Image 8 of 25 from gallery of CH2 Melbourne City Council House 2 / DesignInc. Photograph by Dianna Snape
The Council House 2 (CH2) office building was designed in collaboration with City of Melbourne to be a holistic system with its occupants as...
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Image via Wikipedia By Daniel Borzelleca The college decision is one of the most critical decisions that most young Americans make. Institutional reputation, internships, jobs, scholarships, and the party atmosphere all factor into that decision, though not necessarily in that order. The male-female ratio at schools could [...]
In researching Council House 2, arguably the most sustainable building in Australia, I’ve found that it’s method of having attained that status is surprisingly simple. Based on biomimic…
Ultimately council agreed to let them make some changes behind this heritage facade, convinced no one on the street would be the wiser.
Architects, designers and urban planners are borrowing from natural phenomena as diverse as termite mounds and resilient grapefruits to design smart, sustainable cities
View of the ruins of the bouleuterion (council debating chamber) in the ruined ancient city of Miletus, Turkey. Behind lie the submerged remains of the agora and behind that, the Ionic stoa (covered walkway).
The Council House 2 (CH2) office building was designed in collaboration with City of Melbourne to be a holistic system with its occupants as participants.
Exclusive: Metrics reflect gross addition to supply, even as unit blocks in affluent Sydney suburbs are being replaced by luxury single properties
Image 6 of 25 from gallery of CH2 Melbourne City Council House 2 / DesignInc. Photograph by Dianna Snape
Image 9 of 25 from gallery of CH2 Melbourne City Council House 2 / DesignInc. Photograph by Dianna Snape
A Cloistered House is a lovely terraced house located in London, United Kingdom, redesigned and extended in 2020 by Turner Architects.
The city council house construction is located in Quimper, in an urban re-newing area called Kermoysan.On north the site faces on to carpark and residential...
Another year has passed for the Australian National Architecture Awards! Established in 1981 by the Australian Institute of Architects and as t...
Liverpool and its politics are different and it was Liverpool’s Tories who, in 1869, built the first council housing in Europe. In fact, the Council’s sanitary reforms and house-building programme…
City of Perth and Geyer undertake a respectful refurbishment of a modernist icon, writes Anna Flanders.
A look at the Derby City Council's new space.
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As a buyer, finding the perfect home in a realistic budget can be one of the most exciting purchases in a lifetime. Now that the desired home has been found, it’s time to create a contract in coordination with the buyer and their agent. A contract, or purchase offer, is a legal transaction that outlines how much you want to pay for the home, all terms and conditions of the purchase, and legal requirements based on state and local laws. Buyers, sellers, agents and the chosen title company are all involved in the coordination of the successful accepted offer.
Image 23 of 25 from gallery of CH2 Melbourne City Council House 2 / DesignInc. Plan / © DesignInc
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Image 19 of 25 from gallery of Inventive Council Housing / Levitt Bernstein. Floor Plan
We left Vienna in last week’s post in 1934 when its 66,000 municipal homes housed around one in ten of the city’s population. Currently, 25 percent of Viennese citizens live in one or other of the…
Street of 105 homes hailed as high-quality architecture in its most environmentally and socially conscious form
The Stirling prize-winning Norwich estate is the tip of the iceberg: despite government cuts, local authorities are finding innovative ways to build housing
A Cloistered House is a minimal residence located in London, United Kingdom, designed by Turner Architects
We want to steer the discussion about architecture and design toward the idea of place, and how it can contribute to healthy, comfortable, engaging public spaces and destinations.
A 1950s end unit council house in Nunhead, South East London, gets a complete transformation to bring it to modern times, including an all-black exterior.
Part One of our tour of Open House London council estates – the event is scheduled for the weekend of the 19th and 20th September – left us in Westminster at Churchill Gardens, one of the very few …
Completed in 2015 in Ribe, Denmark. Images by Anders Sune Berg. Kannikegården is a new house for Ribe parish’s parochial church council, built on the square in Ribe, just across the cathedral. The building houses...
George Shaw creates “a homely and unsettling vision” of Great Britain in his paintings of the Midlands estate where he grew up.
For the past decade, Wenslauer Street in the Bellamy neighbourhood of Amsterdam has been undergoing a metamorphosis. In collaboration with the city council,...
